Hi, I'm Pradeep

Founder & CTO | Solution Architect, RAYFINITE LLC

Systems architected for the frontier,
built to endure and lead.

Eighteen years architecting, building, and securing the systems organizations depend on. Cloud, security, full-stack, and AI are the tools. The work underneath never changes: understand the problem before you build.

18+
years architecting and building
3
tiered agent system, self-designed
7+
production-grade systems architected

About

Purpose first lights the way, the problem becomes clear, and the right stack follows naturally.

I'm a Solution Architect and Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years architecting, building, and securing enterprise systems. The method rarely changes: understand the purpose a system exists to serve, study the problem underneath it, and let the stack follow from that. Cloud, security, full-stack, and AI are all tools, and which one matters depends entirely on the problem in front of it.

I designed and operate a tiered, multi-agent AI engineering system (Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models routed by task, role-specialized agents, and human-gated deploys) and use it to architect and build the RAYFINITE portfolio end to end: from the RAYFINITE Agentic Framework that the whole portfolio is built through, and the web and intranet platform that runs the company, to an ERP intelligence platform, a security layer, cloud/edge incident-response tooling, and consumer apps spanning wellbeing and personal accountability. Twelve ventures, one architecture practice. The detail on each is below.

My practice spans deep cloud (AWS, Firebase/GCP), security (NIST 800-53), and full-stack engineering, including leading a team of three engineers at a U.S. state agency, alongside hands-on work across the modern AI stack (the Anthropic Claude API, Apple Foundation Models, Google Vertex AI, MCP servers, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration).

Fluent in English, Telugu, and Hindi.

Currently

Founder | CTO | Solution Architect
RAYFINITE LLC, Los Angeles, CA

Building products end-to-end: architecture, engineering, security, and launch, through a proprietary multi-agent engineering platform.

Education

MS, Computer Science
New York Institute of Technology
Specialization: Artificial Intelligence

The Portfolio, in Detail

Twelve ventures spanning AI infrastructure, fact-verification, security, and consumer apps, architected, built, and shipped through the same tiered agent system above. Expand any entry for the full picture.

RAYFINITE Agentic Framework Multi-agent AI software-engineering platform Live

The operational backbone behind every product in this portfolio: tiered model routing across Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku; role-specialized executive and engineering agents; fail-closed CI security-review gates verified adversarially with bait pull requests; cross-machine agent federation; and skill supply-chain allowlisting. I designed and packaged it as a versioned, installable plugin, so the same engineering discipline, not just the code, travels with every venture I build.

Visit rayfinite.com See project card
RAYFINITE Web & Intranet Company site and the internal operations platform Live

The public RAYFINITE site, plus the internal platform that runs the company behind it: identity and access control, HR, goals and approvals, asset tracking, and an append-only audit trail. Both are live and still growing, and the intranet is where the operating rules the rest of the portfolio follows are actually enforced.

  • Identity & Access
  • HRMS
  • Approvals
  • Audit Trail
  • Firebase
WeatherHappiness iOS wellbeing app Built, launching

A SwiftUI + HealthKit iOS app that correlates weather patterns with personal health metrics, paired with a companion web experience on Firebase/GCP. I designed and built it end to end as a consumer wellbeing product, the same architecture discipline as the enterprise systems above, applied to a lighter, personal surface.

See project card
Suncalp | HonestResolve Honest personal-resolutions app, brand Suncalp Built, launching

HonestResolve turns empty resolutions into real accountability across iOS, Android, and web, under the Suncalp brand. I architected a 5-step AI-guided "Honest Interview" that scores commitment authenticity (Bronze/Silver/Gold badges), streak-based check-ins, and social accountability features, a wall, leaderboards, reactions, and direct messaging, with Sign in with Apple and a Firebase-backed architecture.

See project card
LovelyRobo Spatial AI-companion platform In build

LovelyRobo is a spatial AI-companion platform: photoreal 3D companion robots, each a full task-specialist (career coaching, productivity, and more) that completes real workflows end to end rather than just chatting, with live voice conversation, persistent memory, and warm character. I architected it to be offered both individually and as a bundle.

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Regionara Multi-tenant diaspora community platform In build

A multi-tenant community platform connecting diaspora communities with local businesses, cultural events, jobs, and discussion forums, where one codebase serves several separately branded communities. I architected the tenant isolation, the data model, and a search layer that runs embeddings locally and answers questions from retrieved listings and forum posts rather than from the model alone.

  • Multi-Tenant
  • Next.js
  • Postgres + pgvector
  • RAG
  • Community
Zenolon ERP intelligence platform Architected

Zenolon is RAYFINITE's ERP intelligence platform, four core modules (Governance/Identity, HRMS/HCM, Financials, and the Zenolon Engine) that other RAYFINITE products integrate with, rather than are owned by. The Zenolon Engine module is a CRDT-based distributed coordination store, letting AI agents on multiple machines share state, tasks, and knowledge without a central server. I architected it as the integration layer underneath FactGuard, Dataveb, AEGIDON, AThEnA, and DiamondHull: designed once, reused across the portfolio.

See project card
FactGuard Evidence verification engine Live

FactGuard is the first product out of the Zenolon Suite: an evidence verification engine live across web, a public REST API, and an MCP server on Firebase/GCP, with the iOS app built and preparing for launch. verification engine with multi-provider model routing and a circuit breaker for resilience, plus live Stripe subscription billing, end to end, from evidence grounding to production deploy.

Visit factguard.org See project card
Dataveb No-code web-scraping & automated-reporting SaaS Built, launching

A self-serve, no-code web-scraper and automated-reporting SaaS built on Python/FastAPI, Next.js, and Playwright. I architected it security-first: a point-and-click selector-builder UI, an SSRF-guarded extraction layer, an idempotent job scheduler, and Stripe billing with signed-webhook verification and per-tenant usage metering.

Visit dataveb.com See project card
DiamondHull The security layer across the portfolio In build

DiamondHull is the security layer across the portfolio, built as a portable, deploy-anywhere purple-team platform for home and small-office networks: passive-first intrusion detection that never sits in the path of a legitimate device, decoys and honeypots, verifiable evidence capture, and multi-channel alerting, with a red-team module that validates the detections. Response is manual by default, so a false positive never cuts off a real device. The evidence layer signs each bundle through a swappable asymmetric signing port, specified for Ed25519, so an auditor can verify a bundle without holding a shared secret.

See project card
AEGIDON Cloud/edge hybrid multi-agent IT incident response Architected

A cloud/edge hybrid multi-agent platform for IT incident response, built on FastAPI, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, and Redis. I architected an incident-commander orchestration model that coordinates six specialist agents under a graduated permission system, zero-trust credential handling, blast-radius analysis before any action is taken, and end-to-end audit logging throughout.

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AThEnA Decision intelligence platform Architected

AThEnA is the platform for making consequential decisions better: AI-augmented decision support for regulated and sovereign environments, where generic tools cannot go. It integrates model-agnostic inference, mission alignment, risk analysis, decision workflow, and audit into one system, so a decision can be traced, explained, and defended to a regulator rather than merely produced. Fourteen functional domains, specified in Corporate and Government editions and designed to deploy across cloud, on-premises, and classified environments. It presents nothing it cannot trace to a source, separates what is verified from what is inferred, and says so plainly when it does not know. It is the largest specification effort in the portfolio: business requirements, product requirements, a functional requirements document spanning twenty sections, a design-patterns catalog, and a conceptual model, all locked before a line of the build.

See project card

Status shown for each venture is taken from its repository and is current as of .

Capabilities

An agentic-AI-engineering practice, built on deep systems fundamentals.

The skill set that differentiates my practice: designing and operating multi-agent AI systems, not just calling an API, but architecting how AI agents plan, verify, and ship software safely.

AI Architecture

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Multimodal Pipelines
  • On-Device / Edge Inference
  • Hybrid Cloud-Edge AI
  • MCP Servers (author)
  • Safety-by-Design
  • Confidence Scoring
  • Dual-Layer Guardrails

AI Models & Inference

  • Anthropic Claude API
  • Apple Foundation Models
  • OpenAI GPT-4
  • Google Gemini · Gemini Live API
  • Google AI Studio
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Cloudflare Workers AI
  • Groq
  • NotebookLM
  • LLaMA 3 / LLaVA
  • Whisper · Piper
  • llama.cpp · MLC-LLM · Ollama · GGUF Quantization

AI Tooling & Frameworks

  • Model Context Protocol
  • LangChain
  • Tool Use / Function Calling
  • FAISS · pgvector · SQLite-VSS
  • MiniLM Embeddings
  • LoRA Adapters
  • Fine-Tuning Pipelines
  • Argilla
  • Multi-Provider Routing + Circuit Breaker

Agentic Coding

  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Google Antigravity
  • GitHub Copilot
  • VS Code
  • Pair-Programming with LLMs

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
  • Firebase (Functions, Firestore, App Check)
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Oracle Cloud (proof-of-concept)
  • VMware
  • GoAnywhere MFT
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions · CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code

Application Stack

  • iOS (Swift 6, SwiftUI, StoreKit 2)
  • React · React Native · Next.js
  • Tauri (Rust)
  • Node.js · TypeScript
  • Python · FastAPI
  • WebSockets
  • WebFlow
  • GovDelivery

Programming Languages

  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • C#
  • .NET
  • VB.NET
  • Java

Operating Systems

  • Unix
  • Ubuntu
  • Linux
  • Android OS
  • macOS
  • Windows OS

Data & Storage

  • Firestore
  • PostgreSQL · pgvector
  • SQLite · Redis
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • Oracle 12c · Oracle AI Database
  • DB2
  • Power BI
  • Oracle WebCenter · OBIEE

Security & Compliance

  • NIST 800-53
  • Pre-Deploy Security Audits
  • Secret Manager
  • Firestore Security Rules
  • Zero-Trust Credentials · RBAC
  • Palo Alto · Splunk · Tenable
  • Security Onion · Kali Linux
  • Shodan
  • Oracle Wallet

Architecture & Leadership

  • Solution Architecture
  • Technical Architecture Documents
  • ADRs
  • Cloud-Native Design
  • Microservices
  • Team Supervision & Mentoring
  • SDLC Ownership

Also exploring: Microsoft Azure.

Career

Experience

  1. Founder | CTO | Solution Architect

    Jan 2026 - Present RAYFINITE LLC · Los Angeles, CA

    Founded a solo venture studio building AI-native products end-to-end (architecture, engineering, security, and launch), operated through a proprietary multi-agent AI engineering platform.

    • Architected a multi-agent AI software-engineering platform with tiered model routing, role-specialized agents, and fail-closed CI security-review gates verified adversarially with bait pull requests.
    • Delivered FactGuard on Firebase/GCP, an AI fact-verification platform live across web, a public REST API, and an MCP server, with a proprietary multi-step verification engine and multi-provider model routing. The iOS app is built and preparing for launch.
    • Architected a cloud/edge hybrid multi-agent platform for IT incident response, with incident-commander orchestration, zero-trust credential handling, and blast-radius analysis before any automated action.
    • Designed a verifiable-evidence layer around a swappable asymmetric signing port, specified for Ed25519, so a third party can verify an evidence bundle without holding a shared secret.
    • Built a CRDT-based distributed coordination store letting AI agents on multiple machines share state and knowledge without a central server.
  2. IT Technical Specialist Supervisor | Solution Architect

    Jan 2015 - Jun 2026 Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center · Baltimore, MD
    • Led the agency's digital footprint end to end, solution architecture, development, and operations for a public-facing site serving 100,000+ annual visitors, an intranet portal, and a stack of integrated enterprise applications (GoAnywhere MFT, GovDelivery, Power BI, Oracle WebCenter / OBIEE, WebFlow, Tenable, Palo Alto, and more).
    • Prototyped a Retrieval-Augmented Generation solution on Google Vertex AI, Google AI Studio, and NotebookLM to surface insights from internal agency documents.
    • Evaluated locally-hosted open-source LLMs via Ollama and LLaMA 3, integrated through LangChain and MCP servers, for secure on-premise AI under data-sovereignty constraints.
    • Drove a 2-3x acceleration in team delivery velocity by adopting AI-assisted, agentic coding workflows with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
    • Migrated the agency's infrastructure to the Tierpoint datacenter, 10 physical servers hosting a VMware-based estate of ~40 virtual servers and 30 desktop VMs, delivering a 50%+ improvement in system performance.
    • Spearheaded AWS cloud adoption and implemented the agency's AWS cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery, application hosting, and off-site storage via EC2, S3, Route 53, Lambda, ELB, VPN, and VPC networking, and evaluated Oracle Cloud through proof-of-concept work.
    • Modernized legacy Oracle WebCenter dashboards onto Microsoft Power BI, improving refresh times and lowering licensing exposure.
    • Strengthened cybersecurity posture with NIST-aligned firewall and detection rules, partnering with the SOC team on Palo Alto Firewalls, Splunk, and Tenable.
    • Supervised and mentored a team of three IT staff and owned the full SDLC.
  3. Senior Software Engineer | Technical Consultant

    Aug 2011 - Jan 2015 Tejase Technologies Inc. · Des Moines, IA
    • Logitech Inc. (Project Manager), delivered enterprise architecture and technical consulting across Fortune 500 and public-sector clients, leading initiatives from solution design through production rollout.
    • Catamaran Rx (Senior Application Architect / ECM Consultant), architected enterprise content-management solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware, improving document-workflow efficiency for a healthcare benefits leader.
    • Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (Senior Technical Consultant), drove strategic IT modernization: web application development, integrations, and platform stability.
  4. Software Engineer | Technical Consultant

    Feb 2008 - Aug 2011 Fusion Global Solutions · Overland Park, KS

Selected Work

Projects

Production-grade systems and products I've architected and built at RAYFINITE LLC, spanning ERP AI integration, agentic engineering infrastructure, AI fact-verification, incident response, evidence integrity, and consumer apps.

RAYFINITE Agentic Framework

Live

Multi-agent AI software-engineering platform

Tiered model routing, role-specialized executive and engineering agents, fail-closed CI security-review gates verified adversarially with bait pull requests, cross-machine agent federation, and skill supply-chain allowlisting, packaged as a versioned, installable plugin.

  • Multi-Agent Orchestration
  • CI Security Gates
  • Plugin Architecture
Visit rayfinite.com

RAYFINITE Web & Intranet

Live

Company site and the internal operations platform

The public site plus the internal platform behind it: identity and access control, HR, goals and approvals, asset tracking, and an append-only audit trail. Live and still growing.

  • Identity & Access
  • HRMS
  • Approvals
  • Audit Trail
  • Firebase

WeatherHappiness

Built, launching

iOS wellbeing app

SwiftUI + HealthKit app correlating weather patterns with personal health metrics, with a companion web experience, on Firebase/GCP.

  • SwiftUI
  • HealthKit
  • Firebase/GCP

Suncalp | HonestResolve

Built, launching

Honest personal-resolutions app, brand Suncalp

HonestResolve turns commitments into real accountability across iOS, Android, and web, an AI-guided "Honest Interview," streak-based check-ins, and social accountability features like leaderboards and reactions, under the Suncalp brand.

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Web
  • AI-Guided

LovelyRobo

In build

Spatial AI-companion platform

Photoreal 3D companion robots with live voice conversation, persistent memory, and warm character, a spatial AI-companion platform offered individually and as a bundle.

  • 3D
  • Voice AI
  • Spatial Computing
  • Companion AI

Regionara

In build

Multi-tenant diaspora community platform

One codebase serving several separately branded communities, with local businesses, cultural events, jobs, and forums, plus a search layer that embeds content locally and answers from retrieved posts rather than from the model alone.

  • Multi-Tenant
  • Next.js
  • Postgres + pgvector
  • RAG
  • Community

Zenolon

Architected

ERP intelligence platform

Four core modules (Governance/Identity, HRMS/HCM, Financials, and the Zenolon Engine) that other RAYFINITE products integrate with, rather than are owned by, as a standalone AI-native ERP integration layer.

  • ERP
  • AGI-Native
  • Governance/Identity
  • HRMS/HCM
  • Financials

FactGuard

Live

Evidence verification engine

Live across web, a public REST API, and an MCP server on Firebase/GCP, with a proprietary multi-step verification engine, multi-provider model routing with a circuit breaker, and live Stripe subscription billing. The iOS app is built and preparing for launch.

  • iOS
  • Web
  • REST API
  • MCP
  • Firebase/GCP
  • Stripe
Visit factguard.org

Dataveb

Built, launching

No-code web-scraping & automated-reporting SaaS

Python/FastAPI, Next.js, and Playwright, architected security-first, including an SSRF-guarded extraction layer and per-tenant usage metering.

  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • Playwright
  • SSRF-Hardened
Visit dataveb.com

DiamondHull

In build

The security layer across the portfolio

Provenance-tracked evidence records with Ed25519 cryptographic signing, so tampered or poisoned inputs are detected and rejected before they influence model output.

  • Intrusion Detection
  • Honeypots
  • Verifiable Evidence
  • Ed25519
  • Purple Team

AEGIDON

Architected

Cloud/edge hybrid multi-agent IT incident response

Incident-commander orchestration with six specialist agents, a graduated permission model, zero-trust credential handling, blast-radius analysis before any action, and end-to-end audit logging.

  • FastAPI
  • WebSockets
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Zero-Trust

AThEnA

Architected

Decision intelligence platform

AI-augmented decision support for regulated and sovereign environments. Integrates model-agnostic inference, mission alignment, risk analysis, decision workflow, and audit into one system, so a decision can be traced, explained, and defended rather than merely produced. Corporate and Government editions.

  • Decision Support
  • Alignment
  • Risk Analysis
  • Human-in-the-Loop
  • Auditability

Status shown for each project is taken from its repository and is current as of .

Foundations

Education & Professional Development

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science

New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus, NY · Jan 2006 - May 2008

Specialization: Artificial Intelligence, Operating System Security, Compiler Theory, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics.

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, India · Jun 2001 - May 2005

Coursework: Data Structures, Operating Systems, Database Management, Information Security, Cloud Computing.

Professional Development & Training

  • Anthropic: Multiple AI / LLM courses with completion certificates: prompt engineering, Claude API integration, applied AI workflows.
  • AWS Training & Certification (Instructor-Led), Architecting on AWS, Developing on AWS, AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Day.
  • State of Maryland: Multiple cybersecurity training programs: security awareness, NIST controls, incident response.
  • Self-Directed AI Engineering: Hands-on work with the Anthropic Claude API, Apple Foundation Models, Firebase/GCP, Vertex AI, Google AI Studio, NotebookLM, LangChain, MCP servers, Groq, Google Antigravity, Ollama, LLaMA 3, llama.cpp, and Jupyter Notebooks.

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified Professional

Let's talk

Open to conversations about AI architecture, engineering leadership, and what's next.

Whether it's a role, a collaboration, or just trading notes on agentic AI systems, I'd love to hear from you.

Los Angeles, CA · Open to hybrid

Beyond the Code

Hobbies

  • Filmmaking
  • Watching movies
  • Audiobooks
  • Reading
  • Exploring